Business designed to help startups overcome obstacles has big plans

With a new space and expanded model, the Rocket Lounge aims to work with more promising companies.

  • By Ted Carter
  • | 6:00 a.m. April 13, 2018
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JimJett.com. Dieter Kondek helps lead the newly relocated Rocket Lounge Innovation Center in Naples.
JimJett.com. Dieter Kondek helps lead the newly relocated Rocket Lounge Innovation Center in Naples.
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A realization the Rocket Lounge couldn’t make a profit at its cramped downtown Fort Myers home clinched a decision to move the business accelerator to Naples.

The deciders — founder and CEO Dieter Kondek and COO Bud Stoddard — say they prefer the moneymaking odds they get in Naples for their incubator/accelerator project.  

 

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